Botetourt County Courthouse Fire

Historical marker location:

1 W Main St, Fincastle, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Local Road T-630) and Roanoke Street (Local Road T-1204), on the left when traveling east on Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1999

The first slave ship to arrive in the American colonies landed in Virginia in 1619. Virginia became a center of the transatlantic slave trade, and by 1860, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved people in the United States.